Performance Part 2: Storage Devices
The included storage drive in question is a Hitachi HGST HTS721010A9E630 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5” mechanical drive. This isn’t a bad drive per say, but—as is always the case with mechanical hard drives—its performance is dwarfed by that of any modern solid-state drive. Of course, the omission of an SSD from our test unit was a matter of cost savings, and so adding one aftermarket might be your first order of business if you’re interested in improving general system performance. You’ll need to image the OS to the SSD, after which this Hitachi drive will make a fine secondary storage option.
To get a closer look at the drive’s performance, we begin with our ATTO disk benchmark results.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
Apart from lackluster 4K performance, the G751JT’s internal hard drive at least holds its own against similar parts. Even the slowest SSDs are many times as quick however.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0
It’s much the same story in CDM of course, with good sequential read/write results but sluggish small chunk performance.
HD Tune
Finally, a look at HD Tune provides a clearer picture of the hard drive’s speed.
There’s one final negative to note regarding the storage configuration of the G751J. While the primary drive bay supports full SATA III speeds, the secondary bay only works at SATA II speeds. This is only an issue, of course, if you plan on adding an SSD in the second bay (and especially if you’re considering running RAID between two SSDs, for instance). Most users probably wouldn’t fall into this camp, of course (in fact, it’s much more likely that with this particular configuration, you’d move the existing 1 TB drive to the secondary bay after imaging it to an SSD, then install the SSD in the primary drive bay—in which case it would not affect performance at all). However, it still is a limitation, and it’s worth noting if you’re planning on possibly picking one of these bad boys up.
Hasn’t asus just announced
Hasn’t asus just announced that g-sync is coming to the G751? The weren’t clear whether this model is getting it with a driver update, or new hardware (?) only.
I have 2 g751 of different
I have 2 g751 of different configs. But both of them seem to have massive USB issues. The usb ports on the right side seem to work fine but the two on the left will never mount external HDDs.
Are your USB external HDDs
Are your USB external HDDs drawing power from the USB or is it external power? If I recall, not all the USB ports are fully powered on most, if not all Notebooks.
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph drives, powered externally was what I was using. Also, if you plug in a thunderbolt device it drops all the internal sata drives except for c.
I am teh cool guy
I am teh cool guy
These laptops are riddled
These laptops are riddled with trouble, they software they use to make backup disks rarely works, bios updates fail on a regular basis bricking the laptops, the quality of assembly is plagued with defects, the ASUS brand software is known for causing latency issues that make the machine unusable for WIFI gaming. They use the same cheap keyboard internals as their 300 dollar model laptops that don’t even support 3 key rollover. Do use use ESDF to game? Not on this laptop, Shift+E+Space is a dead key. If you have to send in for warranty repair, expect it to come back damaged and have to fight for a claim. Buyer beware.
If you don’t believe me just
If you don’t believe me just go read the ASUS ROG forums.
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7 for a few years, I thought ASUS quality would be on all their products, evidently NOT!
After reading the above revues, I won’t be buying any ASUS products in the future, but..the Nexus 7 works perfectly!
Well it appears to be a hit
Well it appears to be a hit or miss thing apparently because I have owned 5 different ROG laptops ranging from the GTX8 series all the way to the 10 series and other than the first model I had that had an issue with blowing out the KB leds when you flashed the bios requiring it be sent in for a new board, all of them worked as advertised, even my G751JT-TH71 I have flashed 5 bios revisions without any issues, I think alot of what you read in the forums is also alot of non-technical consumers doing things, and breaking them. Case in point the number of users using winflash over the UEFI bios update (preferred) and bricking their units. Any tech worth their stuff knows even if winflash does what it should, the method that most often is more secure and successful is not withing the windows environment.
The only complaint I have for the G751 is this rediculous notion that ASUS will not just give us i7 4710HQ owners the gsync option, it can be done, its not hardware related both panel, GPU and connection support it, its a silly license.
So, at that same price you
So, at that same price you can get the brand new G-sync MSI GT72 with a slightly higher clocked Broadwell. Most of the rest of the specs are virtually identical. The MSI has USB 3.1 ports rather than the Thunderbolt port, but I would take the USB 3.1 ports anyway.
I can’t imagine buying a non-G-sync laptop, especially when you can get a G-sync one at the same price.
I don’t get why it’s not
I don’t get why it’s not getting 9,000-10,000 3dmark 11 points? Is it the ssd or lack of?